Authors : Mohammad Abdul Mazed

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 6 - June

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8138900

Abstract : Safe and widely accessible water is critical for people's health. Due to the violence against their ethnic group in Myanmar, an estimated one million Rohingyas have fled. They are currently residing in a makeshift settlement on the steep terrain of Cox's Bazar, where there are insufficient water and sanitary services, which has led to the spread of diseases like cholera, typhoid, and diarrhea. This is a descriptive type of cross-sectional study that reports socio demographic characteristics, knowledge & awareness of potable water and the effect of chlorinated water on the prevalence of waterborne illnesses at Rohingya settlement, kutupalong, cox’s bazar, Bangladesh. A pre-tested, data collection has been done properly using a semi-structured, modified interview administered questionnaire. The use of non-probability purposive sampling techniques has been tested after participant face-to-face interviews. The result shows that respondents were 38% male and 62%) female. A total of 92% people were receiving sufficient water from Chlorinated zone and 86% people were receiving water from non-Chlorinated sources. 124 respondents (83%) were found familiar with water born disease in Chlorinated zone and 113 respondents (75%) were found familiar with water borne diseases in non-chlorinated area. As water borne diseases, majority of the respondents (235 &163) mentioned Diarrhea and secondly Typhoid in this study. It was found that 25% from Chlorinated zone and 55% from non-chlorinated zone respondents’ any family member/s suffered by any water borne diseases during last 3 months. A summary can be concluded from the analysis that, chlorinated water supply ensure much more water available and has significant impact on reducing the rate of water borne diseases comparatively.